Verizon Wireless Flicks Content Switch

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Verizon Wireless Flicks Content Switch

UPDATED: The carrier will announce a high-speed data network expansion and
an ambitious video content offering.

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UPDATED: Verizon Wireless has expanded its third-generation (define) network
and will launch an ambitious multimedia service that's heavy on video
content, executives announced today.

"This is a defining moment for the wireless industry," Denny Strigl,
president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, said at a Las Vegas news conference.
"The promise of 3G is finally in consumers' hands."

Verizon Wireless' 1xEV-DO network was activated in San Diego and Washington,
D.C., last year and can now provide coverage in 30 cities -- a number that
could double by year's end, executives said. Just as important, the network
infrastructure is the content that will ride atop it.

Beginning Feb. 1, subscribers who pay the additional $15 per month for the
"Vcast" service will receive unlimited Web browsing, as well as
entertainment, news, weather and sports video programming from major media
outlets.

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